CARACCIOLO, Marco, « The Reader's Virtual Body: Narrative Space and Its Reconstruction », dans Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies, vol. 3, 2011, p. 117-138.
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This essay is concerned with the reader’s imaginative projection into fictional worlds, and with the role of such projective acts in the reconstruction of narrative space. The essay has three parts. In the first I investigate the fictionalization of the reader’s virtual body. By “fictionalization” I mean “actualization within the fictional world.” In particular I argue that some passages provide the reader with a fictionally actual body on which to ground his or her virtual body. In the second part I examine what happens when the reader’s virtual body is left to itself, without any fictional anchoring. Finally, in the conclusion I attempt to position all the cases considered on a scale of fictionalization.